Of course, finding the answer to that one was not merely a question that could be answered by just reading books and seeing what sticked but seeing as I was basically stuck in magical probation until Pomphrey declared me fit to cast, it was the best option I had available. And so I moved from the advanced transfiguration texts to a charm treatise where I struggled to understand every other conc...
2025-08-01 06:52:50 +0000 UTC
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I stepped into his space and he spat a wind bullet straight at my head. He’d held it back from that initial barrage, building it up in his throat, sharpening it with more and more shape transformation. It moved so quickly that one second it was leaving his mouth and the next, it was passing through the space my forehead had occupied nary a second earlier. It was a good trick, I reluctantly ad...
2025-08-01 06:34:30 +0000 UTC
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“Rhaenys? What are you—“ He stopped as he looked around himself, staring at all of us for a few seconds before he looked down at his own body. He gasped as he tried to wiggle in place.
“Oh” He said, and I could see the realization set in. Corlys was a smart man, and it did not take a genius to figure out just what’s going on.
“How long do I have?” He asked, turning...
2025-07-31 15:42:39 +0000 UTC
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Apparating over from Britain was just a matter of crossing the channel. Going from Greece wasn’t all that bad either. I just needed to visit a few places in this world so I had more than a few apparition points to pick from. Beyond that, there was nothing that would present much of a barrier to my coming and going.
“Superb” She said, leaning down to plant a kiss on my cheek before ...
2025-07-31 15:41:07 +0000 UTC
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He rose to his feet and flicked two shuriken straight at me, I backhanded them to the sides, strengthening your hands with a quick application of earth release. Even the wind release enhanced shuriken were not able to pierce it. I stepped closer again. This time, he moved in for the attack, starting with a kick aimed for my head. I stepped to the side and bodychecked him into the wall of his ho...
2025-07-31 15:38:07 +0000 UTC
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Mother and Laena were fighting. I’d seen it coming, but not for the first time this week, I felt lost as to what to do about the situation. I’d taken charge of the search for Seaspeaker, and to my annoyance, we were yet to find the man himself. Even worse, we were yet to get a consistent description of what the man even looked like. Some of his men said he had olive skin like the ...
2025-07-31 05:43:46 +0000 UTC
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I scouted the perimeter with byakugan and looked into the house. Danzo was sat at his desk, doing some sort of writing while two of his clansmen spoke to him. I had two options. Go in now and take him regardless or wait for them to finish. Even with how angry I was, I knew that there were some things it was best not to leave any evidence of. So I settled in and waited. They spoke and worked up ...
2025-07-31 05:25:11 +0000 UTC
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I unrolled the scroll after breaking the seal. “So how’d ya do?” Sirius was already asking before I’d even finished looking through the result. One, two. That had to be some sort of record, wasn’t it? I passed the scroll to him while I reflected on the results.
Dark Arts- Mastery
Charms- Outstanding
Transfiguration- Outstanding
Potions- Exceeds Expectations
2025-07-31 05:08:54 +0000 UTC
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It took a whole day for me to remember that my ICW AWLS results had been scheduled for release the ay after the Third task. I knew I won the third task, I had the cup and the bag of gold sitting on my desk to drive that point home, and since there was only so much I could do while essentially strapped to a hospital bed, I had space for my mind to stray.
“So how’d the results turn out...
2025-07-30 20:38:30 +0000 UTC
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Laena had been serious about not seeing Father in this state. Even now, she was out flying with Vhagar while I sat with Mother and the Easter watching him sleep soundly. “So there’s nothing you can do? Nothing at all?” This was not the first time Mother was asking this question.
“Maybe if I had gotten to him a few seconds after he was wounded then I would have had a chance. Not a...
2025-07-30 20:15:41 +0000 UTC
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I didn’t think this through. I did not fucking think this through at all. This was even more stupid than fucking breaking into Hashirama’s grave. This was the kind of thing that would lose me the support of the clans, the shinobi, even the fucking civilians. "If he can do it to a Clan head, think of what he’ll do to you” I could practically hear Hiruzen saying those words as he...
2025-07-30 12:31:09 +0000 UTC
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We had underestimated the pirates, and we had done so to our massive loss. For one, they'd burned the shipyard, seemingly having decided that if they could not have it, then neither could we. That loss would have been large enough, even if one did not consider the loss of life. Vaemond had taken the bulk of the Knights with him; Corlys had sent the rest of the men-at-arms into the island to sco...
2025-07-30 12:30:01 +0000 UTC
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"A week?" I asked, gobsmacked. That was—it should have been impossible. I knew more about magical medicine than most, and there was a bit of an unofficial rule: three days. Any wound or malady that could not be healed in three days would never be healed at all. So how had I been unconscious for a whole week? I felt along my body. All my limbs were intact—at least they seemed to be. I flexed...
2025-07-30 12:14:56 +0000 UTC
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“I would never dream of assassinating my Kage,” I said.
“Then you are either lying or a fool. I like you, Shorirama Senju. I liked your Granduncle even more. So I will assume you are no fool and are just merely lying. Do you know anything about how I became the Daimyo?” He asked. Was that a serious question?
“Your father had been sick, and then died in his sleep on the eve...
2025-07-30 12:07:32 +0000 UTC
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By the time we reached the last straight of the last lap, Vhagar was a mere two lengths behind us. We’d pushed more and more in the time since, managing to accelerate for brief periods to keep our lead as much as we could, but all that had managed was allowing us to avoid being overtaken. Except that it seemed that Laena’s strategy had also included a last minute push. The giant dragon behi...
2025-07-30 05:40:35 +0000 UTC
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By the time we reached the last straight of the last lap, Vhagar was a mere two lengths behind us. We’d pushed more and more in the time since, managing to accelerate for brief periods to keep our lead as much as we could, but all that had managed was allowing us to avoid being overtaken. Except that it seemed that Laena’s strategy had also included a last minute push. The giant dragon behi...
2025-07-30 05:39:49 +0000 UTC
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Nowhere immediately obvious, and my choices were beginning to be limited. If I couldn’t find the cells and harness their power, then my options for Uraume’s prosthetic would have to involve mechanically designing one like a puppet’s arm. I still had the remains of the puppet I’d stolen from that Suna Jounin to earn how they worked in concept and crafting one couldn’t be that hard. I h...
2025-07-30 04:57:21 +0000 UTC
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“That’s impossible” Uzume bluntly disputed.
“I concur. If it were possible to transmit genes like that after a subject’s death then the Hyuga clan would be aware and would guard against it beyond just sealing the eyes away. Besides, if we had this kind of thing, we would already have stolen kekkei genkai from the other villages before now” Uraume added her voice to the discou...
2025-07-29 11:43:51 +0000 UTC
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“Sister, it’s been a while” I said when she got within talking distance so I did not have to shout. She did not reply, closing the distance instead and swallowing me in a hug. Near two years between us in age meant that she was closer to sixteen than I was to fifteen and easily towered over me. I couldn’t wait for my growth spurt to finish— this wasn’t proper.
“Are you done...
2025-07-29 11:30:10 +0000 UTC
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“Okay, that’s enough. Harry, can you tell us why happened next— after you presumably lost consciousness?”
“I woke up in a graveyard.”
“Which graveyard?”
“How exactly am I supposed to know , Headmaster? I do know that I was tied to a grave belonging to a Tom Riddle, son of Thomas and Mary Riddle” I watched as Dumbledore nodded, like he expected this. And ...
2025-07-29 05:54:09 +0000 UTC
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“The spell didn’t work. Nothing worked. And then he told me the dome would feed n my own magic while I remained within. He’d shut off the air as well .So I had two time bombs ticking— one ws the air, the other was my magic. So I thought it through. He didn’t seem like he wanted to kill me. That was way too much effort to kill someone when a killing curse to the back worked just as wel...
2025-07-28 20:25:18 +0000 UTC
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I stood at the edge of the harbour. Vhagar had been spotted miles away, and sometime later, so had Meleys. It wa snot like Vhagar was ahead, but the dragon’s larger size made her visible from long distances. Igneel lay sprawled behind me, lounging in the sun. I had never known how much the lack of the sun had affected him in the Stormlands where it was always either raining, cloudy,...
2025-07-28 20:13:42 +0000 UTC
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I lifted both my hands in the universal symbol of surrender. Dealing with one of them was trouble enough. With the both of them? When they were both pissed off? I’d rather fight Hanzo again. Speaking of Hanzo, that was another thing I had on my mind. The Land of Rain. The Land of Rain would birth most of the Akatsuki’s leadership— Nagato, Konan, Yahiko. If hanzo could be trusted, then may...
2025-07-28 19:51:11 +0000 UTC
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“So I assume you have something for me?” I asked her as I stood at the gate, awaiting their return. She turned and gestured to some of the Jounin. I actually chuckled when I saw what Uzume had prepared. Should I have expected anything else? Kitsuchi was bound to wooden poles, tied and double tied with chains on his hands, his legs, his neck even. I looked at him, and he met my gaz...
2025-07-28 05:16:57 +0000 UTC
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Just as expected he turned to leave the room with a nod. Before he seemed to change his mind and turn around. “There is anther matter I wished to discuss, Nephew”
“Yes, Uncle”
“You are not yet of age. There must be a regency” I amended my previous thought. This man seemed to have some hidden ambition to him. How cute.
“What regency? Is my father dead?” I ask...
2025-07-28 05:01:46 +0000 UTC
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“So now Harry, can you tell me what happened? As much as you can remember. Not just what is relevant— every sound, every smell, every feeling that itched at your skin and made you want to react. I need to know all of it.” He said, and his was the time for me to make a choice. Tell him, or don’t tell him. I laughed internally. That was not a choice— not really. i couldn’t face Voldem...
2025-07-28 04:45:45 +0000 UTC
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“So tell me now why you did not kill Sarutobi Hiruzen? I assume you are here to secure my support for your bid as Kage. I do not back losers, and if your reason is not satisfactory, then I will take it as an indication that you lack the will to do what is necessary, and this can never be a winner.” He said, and I could tell he meant every word that left his lips. This man had killed his own...
2025-07-27 20:26:47 +0000 UTC
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“I would never dream of assassinating my Kage” I said.
“Then you are either lying or a fool. I like you, Shorirama Senju. I liked your Granduncle even more. So I will assume you are no fool and are just merely lying. Do you know anything about how I became the Daimyo?” He asked. Was that a serious question?
“Your father had been sick, and then died in his sleep on the ev...
2025-07-27 20:24:29 +0000 UTC
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“I mean that you had me unconscious here, probably had your mediwitch feeding me sleeping potions when Sirius wasn’t paying attention so you could rifle through my mind at your will. You know exactly what happened and why I have that wand” I accused. I had no evidence, but I had a strong feeling that this was what had happened and everything I knew about Dumbledore told me that this was j...
2025-07-27 19:59:34 +0000 UTC
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“A week?” I asked, gobsmacked. That was— should have been impossible. I knew more about magical medicine than most, and there was a bit of an unofficial rule. Three days. Any wound or malady that could not be healed in three days would never be healed at all. So how had I been unconscious for a whole week. I felt along my body. All my limbs were intact— at least they seemed to be. I fle...
2025-07-27 19:46:08 +0000 UTC
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